Question is flawed; thought occurs in the mind: the moment you share that thought you are portentously sharing ramblings of your mond you havent really thought through fully…

(TLDR: if you have a point; make it- thinking out loud sometimes is useful, but rarely in the online forum, unless you’re in DMs or something…)

Twitter, lolololol, but you have to be hardcore

This is like a poorly templated LLM to make fake Wikipedia articles… nothing I put in provides accurate or realistic information

I thought there were going to be Atari 2600 games to teach programming concepts but this is pretty close so upvote

This is the only one unfortunately…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Programming

The Atari VCS's RAM size of 128 bytes restricts the possibilities for writing programs.

That’s not a typo, and also a severe limitation.

"Program is where instructions are typed. It has a maximum of eleven lines of code."

Egads.

I had this as a kid. It was very difficult to enter text. The whole experience was underwhelming, unfortunately. Thank you to my parents who bought it for me. I’m a programmer to this day.

AFAIK this is the only programming game on the Atari 2600, so I was excited for a bit reading the plural in the post's title.

BTW that cover image is epic.

In modern time people use Batari BASIC which allows relatively sophisticated programming for the VCS.

Add the ability to write a text prompt; accessibility wise - not everyone speaks the same or can be understood by basic speech to text

Yup. After 6 attempts it still couldn't understand me. And I'm a native english speaker, grew up in the US northeast, and nobody would accuse me of having any sort of non-US-broadcast-standard accent.

And some of us just plain don't want to use voice interfaces.

I don’t mind using them, but this one doesn’t work. It makes for some comical images but this is not an effective voice prompt.

Crowdsourcing content moderation always turns out real well

You’re a monoculture

Private angel investors watch from above all of the “clouds”

Having spent about 200$ on credits… yes, it glues together your words through transformers into images… of snippets of the identified corpus of images it has… with some specific prompt phrasings having cool weighting for making really nicely looking glued together results… it’s a model: classical computing - everything is turtles and duct tape and rivets and glue, all the way down…

Fixed relationship concepts are a deeply subjective model, too, and this isn't exactly taught in school.

Imagining that one knows "the" relationship between even two really obvious things can be the sign of a closed mind, or a mind which locks out new perspectives. This can be even more true, the more obvious the relationships may seem due to shared sensory biases.

IMO this is one reason why DALL-E 2 can be helpful for conceptualizing. If the user is open, DALL-E 2 can make mistakes and still teach you things through those same mistakes.

Unfortunately the relationship between DALL-E 2 and the user, so to speak, is also perceived as relatively fixed by members of the tech community, so highly do they rate their own ability to tell how "good" such a model is, etc.

Hey yeah! Imagine like two small guys in a garage could like make a indexer for the web and call it a search engine and just make it work the best, and gain market dominance and become a little bit slower to innovate than authors “back in 2006” nostalgia…